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'AdX Block changes the board has
played every way into the hands of
the car companies. Instead of action
helping the straphangers there has
only been a lot of bunkshooting.
"The order for 228 new cars should
long ago have been delivered and the
cars in operation," said Block. "Ad
ditional care will have to be ordered
and quickly."
Commissioner Ferry points at Bion
J. Arnold, chairman supervising en
gineers, "as "throwing dust" to hide
the faults of the car companies.
"It would appear from reading Ar
nold's statements to the press that he
is a friend of the straphanger," said
Ferry, "when as a matter of fact he
has blocked every move made by the
department of public service, Trac
tion Supervisor Keller and the Com
mittee on Local Transportation."
A letter of Bion Arnold May 23,
1913, on the conditions under which
the street car campanies shall be
guaranteed 7 per cent interest on
their investment is discussed
Ferry.
"The letter does not say what the
rush hour Is nor define how many
should be in the cars," said Ferry, "If,
referring to normal conditions, you
say that 70 people may ride in a car,
you legalize straphangers, because
the Chicago cars cannot seat that
number of people."
Arnold is one of the chief owners
of the Elgin & Belvidere electric rail
way. Though he is a street railway
capitalist, he has been put to the
front and had the spotlight thrown on
him by newspapers as the one man
who could bring Chicago street car
salvation. After seven years Arnold
is now calling for a "dinky" subway
to be dug though he admits surface
tracks now would hold more cars and
carry more passengers fox seats and
fewer straphangers. So Aid. Block
asks: "For whom Is Bion J. Arnpld
working, the people of Chicago or the
street car companies?"
ENGLAND NLflVlBED BY JINKING OF ANOTHER
BATTLESHIP RUSSIANS INVADE HUNGARY
London. No naval disaster of the
wa rto date has so depressed Britain
as the loss of the second line battle
ship Formidable. It is now consid
ered certain that she was torpedoed
by a German submarine.
The naval experts unite in declar
ing that, while such losses must be
expected, they again direct special
attention to the, submarine policy.
There iB much undersurface irrita
tion an dbitter criticism of the ap
parent uselessness of the British
submarines, and .many of the critics
openly ask why they have failed as
guard vessels. The admiralty still
withholds the- complete details of the
disaster.
The latest reports received today
Show that only 151 of the Formlda
ble's crew have been accounted for.
There is still slight hope that cithers
may be brought in by fishing boats,
but this & very faint, as tfee warship
was torpedoed fore and aft and prac
tically her entire botom hlown out.
She sank in lessj than ten minutes.
Survivors of the Formidable de
scribe their escape as miraculous. So
soon as the vessel was struck it was
realized that it was doomed. The sig
nal was immediately given to launch
the lifeboats, but the sea was so high
that the few on board were smashed
as they were put over side. One cut
ter alone floated, the survivors say,
and it had a big rent in it. Those who
were rescued jumped into the sea and
swam to it and to the few life rafts
that floated.
Berlin, Jan. 2. The direct allega
tion that the French official report of
victories at Steinbach, the Alsatian
village which dominates the high
ways to Altkirch, and Mulhausen, are
utterly without foundation, was made
by the German war office today. All
of the Fjrenfih attacks at bi&jpqif
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